Lecture- The relationships between interplant coordination and supply chain integration

Campus A, State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Transmission-219

2017 Dec.28, 10:00 am

The relationships between interplant coordination and supply chain integration

Title：The relationships between interplant coordination and supply chain integration
Time：10:00 am, Dec.28, 2017
Place：Campus A, State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Transmission-219
Speaker：Professor Yang Cheng
Host：Ming K. Lim, Professor, Dean

Biography
Prof. Cheng received his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2004 and his master's degree in management science and engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2006. He received his doctor's degree in management engineering from Aalborg University in Denmark in 2011 and is currently an associate professor at Aalborg University in Denmark. Up to now, he has published one monograph and nearly 50 academic papers, among which he has published several papers in internationally renowned SCI/SSCI indexed journals, such as International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, International Journal of Production Research, Production Planning, and Control, etc. He has also hosted and participated in more than 10 projects

Abstract
During the past 20 years, multinational corporations have attempted to globalize their geographically dispersed plants. The manufacturing system concepts have accordingly moved from a focus on the plant to one on the manufacturing network, which is generally defined as a coordinated aggregation of intra-firm plants/factories located in different places.

This talk introduces the recent research on manufacturing networks. It starts by reviewing the literature on manufacturing networks in the last decades and indicating potential research gaps. Addressing the identified research gaps, the talk further (1) revisits and extends the roles that plants play in a manufacturing network; (2) discusses the evolution of manufacturing network from both plant and network perspectives; (3) elaborates the further development of manufacturing network; (4) explores the interaction between manufacturing and R&D in their globalization; and (5) tests the relationships between interplant coordination and supply chain integration and understands the importance of interplant coordination on the operational performance of a plant in a manufacturing network.